How To Install zip on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install zip

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install zip

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is zip and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install zip on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install zip on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install zip using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install zip

Install zip on CentOS 8 using yum

Because zip is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install zip package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install zip

How to upgrade (update) a single package zip using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like zip in this example you should use the following command:

yum update zip

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade zip

How to Upgrade zip on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update zip

How To remove zip from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the zip package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove zip

Extra info and code examples

• Package and compress a directory and its contents, [r]ecursively:
  zip -r compressed.zip /path/to/dir
• E[x]clude unwanted files from being added to the compressed archive:
  zip -r compressed.zip path/to/dir -x path/to/exclude
• Archive a directory and its contents with the highest level [9] of compression:
  zip -r -9 compressed.zip /path/to/dir
• Package and compress multiple directories and files:
  zip -r compressed.zip /path/to/dir1 /path/to/dir2 /path/to/file
• Create an encrypted archive (user will be prompted for a password):
  zip -e -r compressed.zip path/to/dir
• Add files to an existing zip file:
  zip compressed.zip path/to/file
• Delete files from an existing zip file:
  zip -d compressed.zip "foo/*.tmp"
• Archive a directory and its contents to a multi-part [s]plit zip file (e.g. 3GB parts):
  zip -r -s 3g compressed.zip path/to/dir

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install zip using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the zip from CentOS 8.

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